Defense Spending

Sequestration Looms Large For Florida

By 11:59 Friday night, the White House will officially have to order the sequestration, a series of across-the-board, indiscriminate budget cuts that threaten to send the United States back into recession.

CBS Miami–2013/02/28

Scott Questions Obama’s Leadership In Face Of GOP Obstruction

Florida Governor Rick Scott returned to his tea party roots Wednesday when he strangely said that if the sequestration is instituted, it will be because President Barack Obama’s administration, “fails to do its job.”

CBS Miami–2013/02/27

US Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (L) listens to his running mate Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan during a campaign rally at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, on August 11, 2012. Romney embarks on the first day of a four-day bus trip that will take the White House hopeful to four key swing states, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImages

Broad Romney Budget Outline Draws Scrutiny

One of the problems facing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been how he would pay for his massive tax cuts and vows to cut government spending and services.

CBS Miami–2012/08/15

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